Classic biscuit recipe returns to school cafeterias

Frequently found on dinner tables, biscuits don’t usually turn up on school board agendas.

The Southern staple was the subject of a Coweta County Board of Education vote Tuesday, when board members approved a bid of just under $42,000 from US Foods to provide biscuits to Coweta schools.

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School cafeterias will be allowed to offer regular biscuits again after the Georgia Department of Education’s School Nutrition Division decided in June no longer to require that only whole-grain biscuits be served to students.

“Some of the restrictions placed on certain food types have been lifted,” Superintendent Steve Barker said. “Biscuits are a unique action item, but our nutrition department requested an estimate because not too many companies want to bid on flour alone.”

Most students prefer regular biscuits over the whole-grain kind, Barker said, so the demand for school breakfasts likely will rise.

“Biscuits with flour are a little more popular with our students who come (into school) in the morning hungry,” Barker said. “It will increase participation in the school food program, and that’s the goal.”

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